Black Mirror the unusual satirical drama written by journalist-come-television writer Charlie Brooker will return to Channel 4 this year for a second series consisting of three dark episodes.

Restless actress Hayley Atwell will star in the first of the trio, each of
which will once again have “a different cast, a different setting, even a
different reality”, according to Brooker. In an interview in December he said: "Like
the last series we've done three stories that are three different genres. We've
also got all sorts of unpleasant things and also one of them is very sad.”

In Be Right Back
Atwell appears as Martha alongside Domhnall Gleeson, her social media junkie
boyfriend Ash. He is tragically killed just after the couple move to a remote
cottage and Martha soon becomes aware of a creepy new social network that
allows grieving relatives to communicate with the digital semblance of the
deceased. Disgusted, but compelled by it, Martha, who discovers she is pregnant
with Ash’s child, becomes embroiled in a murky world of online ‘ghosts’.

The following film, The
Waldo Moment, stars Daniel Rigby as a failed comedian Jamie Salter who
unexpectedly hits the big time when he is reduced to voicing teddy bear on an
educational kids’ TV show. The cute but irreverent blue bear’s popularity grows
beyond all proportion as he ridicules unsuspecting politicians and pillars of
the community. He gets his own show and is persuaded to stand in a By-Election
against Conservative politician Liam Monroe (Tobias Menzies). Just as H’Angus
the Monkey mascot was elected Mayor of Hartlepool in 2002, might Waldo actually
win?

The season finale, White Bear, stars Being Human’s Lenora Crichlow as amnesia sufferer
Toni. She is on the run from “Hunter” Michael Smiley in a world where the
transmittance of a mysterious signal has resulted in mass apathy among the
population. Those able to resist its mind-melting effects are rampaging around
doing whatever they want.

The first series of Black Mirror was broadcast in 2011
winning a Golden Rose at the Rose d’Or Television Festival last year and
winning a gong at the International Emmys.